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Stanley Cup

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Stanley Cup: see hockey, ice hockey, ice, team sport in which players use sticks to propel a hard, round disk into a net-backed goal.

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Stanley Cup

Trophy awarded annually to the winning team of the National Hockey League championship. Named for its donor, the Canadian governor-general Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston (1841–1908), the Stanley Cup was first awarded in the 1893–94 season. It is the oldest trophy that can be won by professional athletes in North America.


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In the days after the Oilers lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, word surfaced that Pronger had demanded a trade for ``personal reasons,'' less than a year after he signed a five-year contract.
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Edmonton won the Stanley Cup in 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1990, but over the next 15 years, the Oilers never once earned the right to play in the Finals again.
 
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